--- title: "Floods trap Palm Bay families as tornadoes damage Oklahoma and Arkansas" url: "https://bepreparedsolutions.co/reports/alert-pulse/week-2026-11-02" description: "Every emergency alert sent across the United States in Nov 2 – 8, 2026, and what happened behind them. 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Georgia residents were told to seek higher ground, and a Colorado canal failure prompted evacuation preparations. - Flash flooding · Nov 2–3 the Southwest 8 orders to leave came from county agencies - Flash flooding · Nov 5 Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina 6 flash flood emergencies were declared - Flash flooding · Nov 2 Florida A flash flood emergency was declared - Tornadoes and severe storms · Nov 2–3 the Southern Plains 2 tornadoes were seen on the ground Named in the warnings: Burkburnett, Randlett, Cashion - Tornadoes and severe storms · Nov 3 Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas 3 tornadoes were seen on the ground Named in the warnings: Shreveport, Plain Dealing, Belcher Warnings identified dangerous conditions and told residents when to leave, but they could not preserve road access or replace the rescuers needed to get people out. [Read the week](#palm-bay-flooding) Floods trap Palm Bay families as tornadoes damage Oklahoma and Arkansas (video)[Watch on its own page](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/videos/alert-pulse-week-2026-11-02) ## Floodwater traps families and washes out Fallon Boulevard in Palm Bay In Palm Bay on November 2, rising water trapped Brittany Grant and her son on their kitchen counter before community members rescued them. “There was really no way for us to get out, we were trapped on our counter,” Grant told WKMG News 6. Their home was within the Florida flooding area marked 1 on the map. The warnings began in Palm Beach County on Sunday evening, describing a considerable damage threat. By 7:56 a.m. Monday, the weather service in Melbourne had declared a flash flood emergency in Brevard County: “FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR WEST MELBOURNE AND PALM BAY”. The warning designated a particularly dangerous situation and a catastrophic damage threat. In Melbourne and Palm Bay that Monday, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers reported rescuing more than 60 people using aircraft, airboats and shallow-water vessels, according to WKMG. Access also disappeared: WFTV reported that the Fallon Boulevard NE washout stranded at least 60 households because the canal bridge was their only route out. The damage extended beyond that severed crossing. In a November 5 report by Central Florida Public Media, Brevard County Communications Director Don Walker estimated that at least 250 homes had been damaged in the flooding. In its November 3 update about the Palm Bay flooding, WKMG reported that Mayor Rob Medina confirmed two deaths. Neither cause of death had been confirmed. That uncertainty remains part of the account, rather than grounds to describe the deaths as confirmed flood fatalities. ## Tornadoes damage a home near Big Cabin and trees in Cedarville Near Big Cabin, Oklahoma, on November 3, a tornado damaged a home and an outbuilding, uprooted trees and snapped power poles, according to the weather service’s preliminary survey. The path northeast from Adair was part of the Southern Plains storm area marked 2 on the map. The warning sequence began in Canadian County at 12:54 p.m. Monday with a severe thunderstorm warning. Near Talala that day, surveyors later documented snapped large limbs, although terrain inaccessible by road prevented them from assessing part of the tornado’s path. By 1:11 a.m. Tuesday, the Craig County tornado warning identified an observed tornado, rather than rotation indicated only by radar. The storms continued into Arkansas. The weather service in Tulsa wrote: “At 219 AM CST, a confirmed tornado was located near Natural Dam, moving northeast at 45 mph.” Its subsequent preliminary survey documented uprooted or snapped trees and broken large limbs in Cedarville, including along Rocky Road and Shiloh Road. Separately, a fire during the November 2 storms destroyed a family’s home on Deep Valley Court in Prosper, Texas, FOX 4 reported. Firefighters arrived around 11:30 p.m. and found the attic fully engulfed. The family escaped safely. This was a house fire during the storms, not documented tornado damage. The weather service’s preliminary survey released Wednesday reported no deaths or injuries in each of the Talala, Adair–Big Cabin and Cedarville tornadoes. That finding applies to those surveyed tornadoes, not every storm across the region. In its Tuesday follow-up, The Oklahoman reported that Oklahoma emergency management was asking residents to submit damage reports to support assessments and connect them with recovery resources. ## Flash flooding prompts evacuation orders in Fannin County In southern Fannin and northern Gilmer counties on Wednesday night, the weather service in Peachtree City told residents to seek higher ground. Its headline read: “FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR SOUTHERN FANNIN AND NORTHERN GILMER”. The Georgia counties formed part of the flooding area marked 3 on the map. The first Fannin County warning came at 8:55 p.m. local time, already carrying emergency language and a considerable damage threat. At 9:30 p.m., the warning escalated to a catastrophic damage threat and a particularly dangerous situation. Those designations described the danger officials expected people to face, not a verified tally of losses. After midnight Thursday, Fannin County emergency management turned that warning into a direct evacuation instruction. At 12:48 a.m., it wrote: “FANNIN EMA: ANY RESIDENTS ALONG THE RIVER IN MCCAYSVILLE NEED TO EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY.” A Gilmer County emergency message subsequently warned of flooding on Mountain Town Creek. Emergency warnings also extended beyond Georgia. Polk County, Tennessee, received a flash flood emergency at 1:29 a.m. Thursday; Cherokee County, North Carolina, followed at 2:19 a.m. Later that morning, the Polk County warning carried a catastrophic damage threat. No death or injury toll could be sourced for this flooding. The warnings and evacuation order establish what officials told residents to do, but they do not establish documented rescues, property losses or how many people left. ## An irrigation canal fails in Alamosa County In Alamosa County on Wednesday, officials asked residents in a designated area between Stanley Road and County Road 3 North to prepare to evacuate after an irrigation canal failure. The notice covered part of the Colorado flooding area marked 4 on the map. The county defined the other boundaries as County Road One Hundred Two and County Road One Hundred Ten. Emergency management personnel, sheriff’s deputies and road crews were monitoring conditions. Alamosa County advised residents who felt unsafe or needed extra evacuation time not to wait for a mandatory order. At 3:44 p.m. that Wednesday, the weather service in Pueblo issued a flood warning describing continuing flooding along the Conejos and San Antonio rivers toward their confluence with the Rio Grande. The warning, reproduced by Storm Station 247, said some roads remained closed, but did not identify them or say how many. By 4:07 p.m., Alamosa Regional Communication sent a different message for Del Norte: “Evacuation Orders lifted in Del Norte”. A San Luis Valley emergency advisory reproduced by The Slope also documented the lifting of those orders that day. No deaths or injuries were reported in the records reviewed for this flooding. Across the San Luis Valley, the notices showed an uneven recovery: some river-flooded roads remained closed while Del Norte’s evacuation orders were lifted. The available accounts do not establish that the canal failure, river flooding and Del Norte evacuations shared a cause. ## How BePrepared monitors this, all year This report exists because we already monitor the whole country. Every couple of minutes, around the clock, we read the emergency alerts going out across all fifty states and territories, and we keep them. A month of that record is what you have just read. The national picture is the part most people never see. What matters to you is much smaller: which of these warnings would have reached your street, and what the risks around you look like on an ordinary day. That is what BePrepared is for. Put in your ZIP code and you get the picture for where you live — the flood, fire and storm history around you, the dams and facilities nearby, and a plan for your household rather than a general one. With a free account you can keep a watchlist of the places you care about, like your home, your parents' address, and your kids' school, and set what you want to hear about. ## Where it hit hardest Counted as distinct warnings, and as the days a county spent under one. A county is the smallest area these warnings describe. ### Warnings by region - Southwest95 - Southern Plains60 - Southeast55 - Texas37 - Gulf Coast24 ### Most days under a warning - Maricopa County, AZ7 days Maricopa County, AZ was under a warning on: Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 4, Nov 5, Nov 6, Nov 7, Nov 8 - Brevard County, FL7 days Brevard County, FL was under a warning on: Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 4, Nov 5, Nov 6, Nov 7, Nov 8 - DeSoto County, FL7 days DeSoto County, FL was under a warning on: Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 4, Nov 5, Nov 6, Nov 7, Nov 8 - Seminole County, FL7 days Seminole County, FL was under a warning on: Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 4, Nov 5, Nov 6, Nov 7, Nov 8 - Lake County, FL7 days Lake County, FL was under a warning on: Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 4, Nov 5, Nov 6, Nov 7, Nov 8 - Volusia County, FL7 days Volusia County, FL was under a warning on: Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 4, Nov 5, Nov 6, Nov 7, Nov 8 - Coconino County, AZ6 days Coconino County, AZ was under a warning on: Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 4, Nov 5, Nov 6, Nov 7 - Calcasieu Parish, LA6 days Calcasieu Parish, LA was under a warning on: Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 4, Nov 5, Nov 6, Nov 7 Figure 03[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### Where the warnings landed Every county that received a warning this week, coloured and scaled by how many; the faint dots received none.1,788 of the country's counties received at least one warning; the faint dots are the counties that received none, and a quiet county is not a safe county. Each county wears its MOST frequent kind of warning and its dot scales with how many it received; the month's three biggest kinds carry color and every other kind wears gray, with the panels below giving each kind its own map. The full per-county mix is in the CSV. 504 warned areas — marine zones and territories — have no county position on this map, about 27% of county-level warning volume. They are still counted in every figure and table. Too few counties to panel: fire (6), geologic (5). - Flooding - Winter - Tornadoes - Everything else Flooding1,669 warnings · 267 counties Winter1,007 warnings · 334 counties Tornadoes528 warnings · 187 counties Severe storms524 warnings · 121 counties Safety & civil257 warnings · 149 counties View as a table | County | State | Warnings | Most frequent kind | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Maricopa | AZ | 113 | Flooding | | San Juan | NM | 73 | Flooding | | Coconino | AZ | 70 | Flooding | | Gila | AZ | 56 | Flooding | | Brevard | FL | 54 | Flooding | | Volusia | FL | 42 | Flooding | | Yavapai | AZ | 41 | Flooding | | Navajo | AZ | 40 | Flooding | | Seminole | FL | 40 | Flooding | | Palm Beach | FL | 38 | Flooding | | Lake | FL | 36 | Flooding | | St. Lucie | FL | 34 | Flooding | | Broward | FL | 32 | Flooding | | Fannin | GA | 32 | Flooding | | Rio Arriba | NM | 31 | Flooding | | Indian River | FL | 27 | Flooding | | Pinal | AZ | 27 | Flooding | | DeSoto | FL | 27 | Flooding | | Caddo | LA | 26 | Tornadoes | | Martin | FL | 25 | Flooding | ## What it cost No documented outcome figures were available for this period at the time of publication. This report therefore describes the warnings that went out, and makes no claim about deaths, damage or acreage. BePrepared ## 3,127 warnings across the country in Nov 2 – 8, 2026. See which reach your street. We read the emergency alerts going out across all fifty states, around the clock. That is where this report comes from. Enter your ZIP and get the version that matters to you: the flood, fire and storm history around your address, what sits nearby, and a plan built for your household. [Start your free 7-day trial](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/trial?source=alert-pulse&utm_source=alert-pulse&utm_medium=report&utm_campaign=week-2026-11-02&utm_content=card&returnTo=%2Freports%2Falert-pulse%2Fweek-2026-11-02) No card. It ends on its own. [Or just look up your ZIP](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/zip) The numbers behind this report Every warning counted once, by type, place, day and hour, with the method below and the whole table downloadable at the end of the page. Distinct warnings 3,127 carried by 8,138 messages (2.6× echo) Counties reached 2,292 across 49 states and territories Overnight 865 10pm–6am local · 48 of the most severe Effective on arrival 99% take effect the moment they are sent ### What was warned about | Alert type | Warnings | Messages | | --- | --- | --- | | Small Craft Advisory | 610 | 3,453 | | Flood Warning | 566 | 624 | | Special Weather Statement | 244 | 246 | | Flood Advisory | 186 | 188 | | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 178 | 178 | | Dense Fog Advisory | 168 | 256 | | Flash Flood Warning | 119 | 119 | | Gale Warning | 110 | 1,270 | ### Where | State | Warnings | | --- | --- | | FL | 301 | | AZ | 289 | | OK | 185 | | NM | 163 | | TX | 144 | | CA | 98 | | KS | 85 | | CO | 82 | The busiest hour of the period was 8pm local time, with 226 warnings. ### Counties reached most often | County | State | Warnings | | --- | --- | --- | | Maricopa | AZ | 113 | | San Juan | NM | 73 | | Coconino | AZ | 70 | | Gila | AZ | 56 | | Brevard | FL | 54 | | Volusia | FL | 42 | | Yavapai | AZ | 41 | | Navajo | AZ | 40 | | Seminole | FL | 40 | | Palm Beach | FL | 38 | A county with no alerts is not a county with no risk. It can mean a quiet period, or a hazard that this feed does not carry. Figure 04[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### When the warnings arrived Distinct warnings by the local hour they were sent, across the whole period.Local time in the place each alert was sent to. 865 arrived between 10pm and 6am, 48 of them at the highest severity. View as a table | Local hour | Warnings | Of which most severe | | --- | --- | --- | | 12am | 119 | 4 | | 1am | 84 | 10 | | 2am | 124 | 11 | | 3am | 84 | 1 | | 4am | 100 | 3 | | 5am | 84 | 1 | | 6am | 92 | 0 | | 7am | 102 | 1 | | 8am | 130 | 4 | | 9am | 166 | 5 | | 10am | 157 | 6 | | 11am | 120 | 9 | | 12pm | 172 | 7 | | 1pm | 123 | 14 | | 2pm | 121 | 5 | | 3pm | 133 | 7 | | 4pm | 130 | 9 | | 5pm | 148 | 10 | | 6pm | 137 | 7 | | 7pm | 159 | 10 | | 8pm | 226 | 11 | | 9pm | 146 | 10 | | 10pm | 134 | 8 | | 11pm | 136 | 10 | Figure 05[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### The feed repeats itself How many messages the feed carried, how many distinct warnings they represent, and how many counties those reached.An echo rate of 2.6× — for every warning issued, 2.6 messages carried it. Reporting messages as warnings would overstate this week by 5,011. View as a table | Stage | Count | | --- | --- | | Messages received | 8,138 | | Of which updates | 4,658 | | Of which cancels | 0 | | Distinct warnings | 3,127 | | Counties reached | 2,292 | Figure 06[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### How severe they were Distinct warnings by the severity the issuing agency assigned. - Minor - Moderate - Severe - Extreme - Not classified View as a table | Severity | Warnings | | --- | --- | | Minor | 1,032 | | Moderate | 764 | | Severe | 1,157 | | Extreme | 163 | | Not classified | 11 | Figure 07[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### What people were told to do The share of warnings carrying each instruction to the public.These are response counts. They record the instruction an alert carried, not the hazard behind it. - Avoid - Follow instructions - Shelter - Everything else Where those instructions came from - Shelter (243) — 20 corroborated as flood, 4 corroborated as quake, 189 corroborated as tornado, 30 with no hazard stated in the alert text - Evacuate (10) — 9 corroborated as flood, 1 with no hazard stated in the alert text View as a table | Response | Warnings | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Avoid | 1,809 | 57.9% | | Follow instructions | 587 | 18.8% | | Shelter | 243 | 7.8% | | Monitor | 191 | 6.1% | | Prepare | 186 | 5.9% | | Unstated | 96 | 3.1% | | Evacuate | 10 | 0.3% | | All clear | 5 | 0.2% | ### What this report cannot tell you - This report records the warnings that were sent: when, where, and what people were told to do. It cannot say whether anyone received them, whether they acted, or whether they had anywhere to go. - Deaths, injuries, damage and acreage come from the news organizations and agencies named beside each figure. Our own records measure warnings, never outcomes, and are never the source for a toll. - A county is the smallest area these alerts describe, so "a county was warned" does not mean every street in it was at risk. - Where no figure has been reported, this report says so rather than estimating. ## How these numbers were counted Counted NOV 2, 2026 – NOV 9, 2026 · Frozen at publish The alert figures in this report — how many warnings, where, when, and how severe — come from the alerts this archive received from FEMA IPAWS and the National Weather Service between November 2, 2026 and November 9, 2026, counted once and frozen when the report was published. Deaths, damage and acreage are **not** ours and are never drawn from this archive. Each is attributed to the organization that reported it, above. ### What was counted - cap\_status = 'Actual' (tests, exercises and demos excluded) - SAME test codes RWT/RMT/DMO/NPT/NAT excluded, and any event type containing "test" - An event is the first message of a CAP identifier chain; updates and cancels are counted separately - Alert time is cap\_sent, falling back to ingest time when the feed omits it - Counties come from the alert geocodes (SAME/FIPS); statewide codes are not counted as counties ### What these numbers cannot tell you - Lead time is the gap between when an alert was sent and when it takes effect. This archive collapses CAP onset into effective, so for many products those are the same instant by design — it is not a measure of forecast warning time. - 72 alerts expire exactly 24 hours after they were sent because the feed omitted an expiry and the ingest substitutes a default. They are excluded from the duration distribution rather than charted as real forecasts. - Evacuation and shelter figures are RESPONSE counts. They record what people were told to do, not what caused it; where the alert text does not name a hazard, the row is reported as unstated. - Hour-of-day figures use each alert’s own local time, resolved from its state. Alerts spanning several states resolve to the first state in their geocodes. - National Weather Service alerts began arriving in volume on 2026-06-12. Earlier months hold only the handful that reached this archive by other routes, so they undercount weather alerts badly and cannot be compared with later months. - Population figures are not available for these counties, so alert counts are reported per county and never per resident. ### This archive Collection began 2026-03-27. National Weather Service alerts began arriving in volume on 2026-06-12 (a small number reached the archive by other routes from 2026-03-31). Months from 2026-07-01 onward can be compared with each other; earlier ones cannot. For newsrooms and researchers ## Use these figures Figures v1 · Frozen Journalists, emergency managers and researchers are welcome to reuse anything in this report, including the underlying counts, with attribution. Version 1 of these figures is frozen: if a correction changes them, it appears above as a dated note rather than silently replacing what you cited. [Download the figures (CSV)](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/reports/alert-pulse/week-2026-11-02/data.csv?v=1)[Ask about the data](mailto:hello@bepreparedsolutions.co?subject=Alert%20Pulse%20data%20question) Cite this report BePreparedSolutions.co. "Floods trap Palm Bay families as tornadoes damage Oklahoma and Arkansas." Alert Pulse, November 10, 2026. https://bepreparedsolutions.co/reports/alert-pulse/week-2026-11-02 Attribution line for a chart or table Source: BePrepared Solutions, Alert Pulse (2026). 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